Jack Kevorkian hospitalized with kidney problems

ProfessionalLeftist

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Thu May-19-11 12:27 PM
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Jack Kevorkian hospitalized with kidney problems

ROYAL OAK, Mich. -- A lawyer says assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian is in a Detroit-area hospital with pneumonia and kidney problems.

Mayer (MAY'-uhr) Morganroth says Kevorkian was reluctant but agreed to go to Beaumont Hospital on Wednesday night. He predicts Kevorkian will be there for several days.

Kevorkian turns 83 next week. Morganroth says his health is not in grave danger but "it's not a good thing right now."

Kevorkian was released from a Michigan prison in 2007 after serving eight years for second-degree murder. He claims to have assisted in at least 130 suicides.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/19/jack-kevorkian-hospital-kidney-problems_n_864225.html

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Thu May-19-11 12:39 PM
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1. Don't know how others here think, but if I were in intractable pain with

no hope to ever get better, and if it were unbearable, I would rather have the right to choose to die, instead of being forced to live in a body that is torturing me without mercy.

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Thu May-19-11 01:13 PM
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2. Same here actually....

....and on top of that, running up beaucoup medical bills that no one can or will want to be stuck with paying after one is finally out of their misery.

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